Political disclosure bill unsubtly takes aim at Ron Conway

City lefties are in their happy place: They get to target gauche tech billionaire in a good government campaign.

Supervisor Aaron Peskin was this morning flanked by a minivan’s worth of his legislative colleagues as well as the District Attorney, the inveterate good-government activist, and a front-running mayoral candidate.

They were gathered in a City Hall antechamber to talk about the man who was not there, the man behind the curtain — the favorite human allegory of all that ails San Francisco for Peskin and his ideological compadres: Ron Conway.

“This is not about Ron Conway or any other investors with handfuls of cash to float around,” Peskin at one point said during a press conference that was very much about Conway et al. and announcing legislation very much aimed at Conway et al. “Mr. Conway is a symptom of a much larger problem in San Francisco and this country and that is the Wall Street mentality of routinely putting profits over people.” READ MORE